Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Update: 25/03/2011 1420 GMT – Symantec have just emailed me to say that this detection has been removed and will not be present in the next definition update. Fake viruses are one thing. I recently helped out four people who fell victim to the fake “System Tool” virus which pretends that your PC has a […]
In our latest podcast series Tracy talks to Gary DalSanto of Inventive Software Designs who is one of our partner consultants providing customers with custom automation solutions and helping them with their Macro Scheduler script development. Gary has been working with Macro Scheduler since 2006 on a large variety of different automation scenarios. His first […]
Macro Scheduler veteran John Brozycki has put together this fantastic video tutorial all about Macro Scheduler’s debugging capabilities. The video is 18 minutes long and demonstrates every debug feature, showing examples of their use and talks about how useful the debugger can be for problem resolution as well as script creation. Take a look: A […]
I received this in an email yesterday and just had to share it: “Thank you for a truly superior product! I used this at a previous place of employment and developed a system to autopopulate our very static software. When the software vender sent training staff they were so impressed they offered me a job! […]
In this forum post Armsys asks how he can determine which key the user pressed in an OnKeyPress dialog event handler. The solution I posted reveals an undocumented feature: Internal event parameters. While there is a sample macro called “Dialogs – MouseOver” which ships with Macro Scheduler and demonstrates these event parameters, they are missing […]
For years now we’ve been making do with a less-than-perfect open source ticketing system. We’ve lived with missing attachments, emails not always getting through and the lack of embedded images, some garbled mime encodings and various other missing features. Finally we have a brand spanking new helpdesk. It’s over at help.mjtnet.com. You can still email […]
Macro Scheduler 12.1.4 is now available with the following fixes since my last update announcement: Fixed: Issue with GetEnvVar not always working Fixed: Dialog Designer – Properties not setting after opening dialog until dialog has been clicked. Fixed: A block comment inside a While/EndWhile will cause EndWhile to hang Fixed: LOCALVARS typo in help file. […]
WebRecorder has been updated with the following fix: IEAuto 2.09 : Fixed: ClickTag sometimes producing an innertext error in IE9 Fixed: FormFill may fill wrong form’s SELECT element when more than one with same name exist in different forms. WebRecorder 2.5: Fixed: AV caused when a previous document is closed by a new one Registered […]
A support request came in today asking how to show the mouse moving from one point to another slowly enough to be visible in a video demo. The regular MouseMove function simply “jumps” the mouse cursor straight to the given point, without passing any points between wherever it was to start with and that end […]
Happy New Year All! And to start the new year here is part 2 of the Custom Dialogs Tutorial I promised last month. In this 24 minute video I expand on what we did in part 1 to look at check boxes, combo boxes, setting property values at runtime, method event handlers and consider how […]